Weekly Doom: Enter the Void

Doomsayers praised last week's trade night ("we actually got a lot of trading done") and walked through the calendar: Crypfu's Discord hangout tomorrow at 8pm EST, raffle and gulp-pack winners to be called end of week, and the headline — the Void opens a week from today, running one week so holders can send in Doomsayers and 2.0s to reserve Bloodsayers.

Doomsayers spotlighted a Bitcoin-mining NFT that flopped on base months ago, got repackaged on Robinhood with a token and ETH-earning mechanics, and "popped off." The thesis: holders' rigs sync up to boost odds of completing a full block, with payouts distributed to NFT holders. A block party is planned Friday, and Doomsayers floated that the cheaper base collection may share the same winning odds.

Crypfu argued the only reason a two-year-old chain is suddenly buzzing is airdrop chatter, and that most people chasing it aren't doing the research: "a bunch of them are being led to the slaughter." MetaMú added actual findings — points seemingly only accrue via Kraken Pro and a couple of non-NFT liquidity projects — while noting the airdrop mechanics still aren't officially spelled out.

HalfbloodNerd offered the sharpest read on base: its meme-coin moment "has come and passed," and instead of getting behind its own community's real front-runners, the team leaned on outside consultants nobody rates. Doomsayers tied it back to base being an institution playing cautiously around the Clarity Act, while Robinhood is quietly executing the thing Coinbase always wanted base to be.

The room warmed to Robinhood, with the caveat that its GME trading-halt past still lingers. HalfbloodNerd — who was "there trying to push that button and sell" during GME — said you can't hold a company to its past forever, but still expects Robinhood to eventually "show their hand" and pause something weird. Doomsayers mused that leaning into the grimy GameStop meme energy could actually be a great move for them.

On the 0.03 mint (27th), Doomsayers expected a near-certain sellout but a fast, hard retrace, drawing a direct parallel to Cardisme's Florentines: lots of visible support, everyone secretly "licking their lips" to make a bag. MetaMú agreed the art is decent but not exciting enough to hold once the flip crowd exits.

The creativity gripe peaked with Crypfu's rant on every project calling itself a studio: "My ass, you're a studio — you're a dude in the basement talking to your mom... you're in a studio apartment, you're not a studio." MetaMú recalled a million-dollar mint whose only shipped product was, memorably, a computer keyboard.

Doomsayers got genuinely excited about the 10k, ~$300 ACK drop: free claims for prior holders, a physical item for new PFPs, and art he compared to Death and Taxes. His real interest was timing — a big, no-utility, purely-art collection running up could help rebalance an ecosystem currently obsessed with utility and rewards.

On mint agents, HalfbloodNerd noted nobody mints manual anymore, then landed the sign-off image: bot-free mints sound nice, but "Elon said he was gonna get rid of the bots on X, but then you get rid of the bots and you realize nobody's on it." Doomsayers admitted he built his own trading bot last year — it worked, but needed endless dialing-in to be profitable.